寒山·《极目兮长望》英译

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鸱鸦饱腲腇，鸾凤饥彷徨。

骏马放石碛，蹇驴能至堂。

天高不可问，鹪鵊在沧浪。

A Traveler Brings Messages, Waiting While I Read

From my heights I stare into an opaque sky;

Thick clouds, though white, obscure the lower peaks.

These rumors abound: the carrion crow eats fresh meat;

The phoenix pecks for grubs from village to village;

Horses fast as wind are exiled via pitted roads;

They pass donkeys bearing empty vessels to court.

The dense clouds say, “Do not ask Heaven why.”

Yet we nesting birds are cast into a heaving stream.

（中国文学出版社 译）